Online poker pulls the world of eSports closer to its bosom after Full Tilt ink a deal with G2 eSports to sponsor their professional Hearthstone team Nihilum.

Full Tilt continues to be the testing bed for PokerStars as they ink a deal with professional gaming outfit G2 eSports. Stars baby site will sponsor G2’s Hearthstone team Nihilum.

The move comes barely a month after Full Tilt announced they had passed the Steam Greenlight voting process, meaning a free money version of the game would appear on Valve’s Steam platform in 2016. It’s great news for the poker community. Steam currently garners the attention of over 125 million gamers.

The world of eSports is currently racing through the lives of fiero hunters like a comet. Online poker is now hiding in the tail. It’s surely our quickest way to the promised land. Alex Dreyfus, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mediarex, has been very vocal about the need for poker to learn from the eSports industry. The inaugural Global Poker League (GPL) – Dreyfus’s latest poker incarnation – will take on an eSports feel.